"The German War." Issue 1 (50 pfennigs) (Berlin, 1914). Paul Rohrbach. "Why This War Is Germany's!"

Chauvinist hysteria against the "rotting world"... Only we are struggling, they say, for our existence, France and Russia from "blindness of national passion" (24),
England from greed ("war of sea pirates" —
24)...
..."In reality, we, like Austria-Hungary, had to choose not between war and peace, but between war now or war in a year or two; only then would it be infinitely more dangerous for us" (22)...

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..."One may assume that an attack on Germany and Austria was being planned by the French and Russian military command for the beginning or the first half of 1916" (20)...